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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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RNC Back in for Akin

As I predicted, the Republican National Committee is back in the Missouri race supporting Todd Akin. When the whole “legitimate rape” controversy took place, RNC chair Reince Priebus said there was no way in hell they were going to support Akin even if the polls showed he was tied and could seriously win.

Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from pundits, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate race, the Republican body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the media and not attacking Todd Aiken.